| John Legend – Save Room Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I really love John Legend, but these song lyrics feel a bit predatory to me. It's ambiguous whether this woman is interested in the narrator at all. Nothing is said about her interest in him or their relationship, so it seems like he's just pushing for her to give something that she doesn't want to give. | |
| Ramshackle Glory – Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist... Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It was all nice and happy until Chuck came along... | |
| Blake Mills – Wintersong Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Can't interpret the whole song with confidence, but I want to express my love for the line of the chorus: "it's the worst way to put you in a song and I knew it as the words came, all of this was wrong" It reminds me of how difficult it is to try to articulate something meaningful in song/any art. You've got these big feelings and any attempt to express it just falls short. |
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| Matthew Wilder – Break My Stride Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[Cityslickr:7624] Agreed, this for me is a significant line. So simple but says so much. | |
| Marissa Nadler – Diamond Heart Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This is one of the most beautiful songs I know. Lyrically, musically. Perfect in every way. | |
| Sons of an Illustrious Father – Solution: Burn It! Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I am getting some major Freudian vibes here. I think this guy lost his girlfriend, some lover, and is going haywire over it. He wants to go back to his "mother's shoulder" and find that affection/connection once again. [According to Freud, we are always trying to recreate the relationships we had with our parents in our adult life. ] He find himself feeling like he did as a child, "a poor glistening child stands again so cold". [Freud also writes of our pains as a reflection of the needs that were not met as children.] This line "she was your first and your last" is particularly interesting, as it sounds like it's about the lover. But in this Freudian interpretation, it is more likely the mother. She is the one he is trying to find in his romantic life. Then there's this other layer. All of these images of God come into the song. This too points to Freud, who claimed that religion was a neurosis. This guy is getting sent on a psychological trip upon experiencing this loss. Freud's book Totem and Taboo (wikipedia description http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freud_and_religion) mirrors the song pretty well. The images are the same. I don't know how exactly to make sense of everything, other than to say that the narrator was triggered into this bizarre and internal psychological experience. And the way it sounds is so perfect. It's got this eerieness, this driving energy, and a general essence of chaos. A fucking awesome tune. |
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| Page France – Be My Pianist Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think this song really addresses the question of whether pain and darkness is necessary in creating good art. The narrator is essentially telling all of these characters (the artist, the piano, the actress) that they have the potential to be happy and positive. Yet in the last line, he admits to being stuck in the negativity himself. Seems to me that the message is that pain/sadness/misery is what makes art, although we would like to think otherwise. | |
| Page France – Wet Dog Afternoon Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| These lyrics have a lot of the same images from "Ruby Ring Man" (wet dog, the color red, horns, gates)... perhaps they are meant to compliment each other. Could be that in this song the narrator is at peace with the heaven and God he lost in Ruby Ring Man. This girl still holds (or wants to hold) onto the idea of a hopeful afterlife and meaning, and the narrator is just sort of observing her and the ways in which she navigates through her life. | |
| Page France – The Ruby Ring Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I love the stanza with the line "tails between our legs". I interpreted that as a way to describe the embarrassment or shame the narrator might feel for some of his actions during life. In the context of that whole stanza, it seems like he may be suggesting that the Christian heaven is an awkward place, as everyone becomes a part of your "family tree".... even if you shared some unholy experiences with them ("kiss the devil's cheek"). He seems to be rejecting that idea of an afterlife, lamenting the supposed perfection of heaven. But I love this idea of evolution in that line, too. It could be a way of suggesting that humanity no longer has a need for religion and God, or that belonging to this Utopian heaven is the equivalent to living as a less evolved being. |
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| Page France – The Ruby Ring Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Seems to me like the narrator does not feel a connection to god... "the ruby ring man doesn't know we're here I thought he knew my name strange he wouldn't even look my way" ...but he feels a connection and trust towards Christ: "someone got their fingerprints on my happy ending song christ and all his ruby rings told me I should hang it up because I lie so well I even start to buy it too" Perhaps he is trying to say that he has more faith in his fellow man than in an abstract and distant god. |
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| Page France – The Ruby Ring Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Agreed, needs to be edited. I think the reference is to the pearly gates into heaven. | |
| Alanis Morissette – Your House Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This should have been playing in the background of the episode of Orange is the New Black when Morello breaks into her "boyfriend"'s house. | |
| Wild Sweet Orange – Ten Dead Dogs Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'm going to be that person who interprets this about being about a relationship. The narrators knows he needs to break up and separate from his partner, but he absolutely hates the thought of it. He is tortured by his thoughts and feelings on the matter (walked in circles 'round my room, wrapped myself around the toilet seat, etc). He doesn't want to go through the hurt that he knows is coming. He pleads with god for an alternative and questions whether this could actually be the right thing to do. He doesn't understand how he could have such a change of heart so quickly (Am I running away from what I've always been running towards?). He hopes that his intuition is guiding him correctly (Belief, believe in me/ cause I don't know if reason's ever gonna see/ why love would come to die/ to leave.). He sees no pleasant choice. |
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| Noah and the Whale – My Door Is Always Open Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Fink knows how to convey the heaviness of his pain in the simplest of songs... he's incredible at that. Despite the dead end of this relationship, he has this love that won't go away. He's acknowledging how well he thinks of this woman, yet also admits to the lightness that comes with her departure. I feel like he's also saying that a life together is simply not possible, but in spite of it, a part of him will never give it up. Right in the feels. |
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| Jeffrey Lewis – Broken Broken Broken Heart Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The anthem for those of us who push our partners to their limits and then are shocked and sad when they leave. Amen! | |
| Tunng – Woodcat Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It seems to me like this girl he loves has a bad reputation. She's got "hard edges", "yellow burning eyes", and she's done something wrong ("the incident"). She "lives in the darkness". This guy loves her in spite of it, and wants to join her. He's willing to become a hare like her if it means they get to be together (even though it doesn't sound like that's a good thing). A great metaphor for the ways we lower ourselves in the name of love and allow our morality/values to change. |
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| Julie Doiron – Tonight, We Sleep Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I love the mood and imagery of this song. To me, it is about that sad point in a relationship when you feel (and fear) that something is not right. You want to talk to your significant other about it; you go through in in your mind, you feel a sense of urgency, you want them to give you some sort of comfort. You wake them from their sleep (perhaps a metaphor for pulling them away from their peace or distance), but by that time all the stuff you've been going through in your head goes away. You aren't sure if your weird feelings are valid, so you are apologetic and blame it on being tired, when really there is something brewing inside of you. I had a girlfriend who would literally wake me up from my sleep because she'd get really insecure. She'd have the wildest fears, and she would drive herself crazy with obsessing over our relationship and how it's going. It would get to a point where she'd have to talk to me, usually out of desperation. But when she would, I wouldn't really understand the full capacity of what she was going through in her head, so I'd just give my love and talk through it a bit. She'd feel embarrassed and apologize, saying she's just stressed or tired. But there was something real behind those feelings, I think. We are no longer together, so, yeah. In short, I think the meaning can go beyond this literal level of sleep and speak to the desperation we might feel to connect with someone and the subsequent embarrassment that follows after we try and realize it's not what we were looking for. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Your House Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think the Joni Mitchell detail is really interesting. Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, and Nash) wrote a song about Joni Mitchell called "Our House", where he describes his dream life with Joni. They were dating at the time. He eventually proposed to her and she said no. I can see the relationship between the two songs. Alanis loves this guy, maybe even to the point of marriage. She is in his home acting as if she belongs there, as if they are together and in love; but it turns out that he is not interested in her. Alanis listens to Joni maybe as a symbol of her desire for a life with this guy. |
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| Orion Rigel Dommisse – Alice and Sarah Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Dagon is a god associated with fertility. These two women "shared the same bed" and "knew each other's tongues", so we can assume that they are in a homosexual relationship with one another and the expectations or desires of traditional family life are keeping them apart (Dagon). "Alice believes that the bed must be haunted".... Alice does not think their problems have to do with their homosexuality. Perhaps she is very comfortable with it and is not as affected by messages from others. Alice is also the one who "painted her pale skin with the glowing green life from the ocean". She was fearless of Dagon. However, Sarah, "not convinced" and "less superstitious" may be troubled to some degree by her relationship and may be the reason that the two girls keep getting distant. She is faced with some dilemmas regarding her familial urges in addition to her womanhood or femininity, "her blood flows doubtful and viscous". Even after the defeat Dagon ("trick him into a boiling spring"), they are not at peace. Perhaps they missed their chances to have children and regret doing so despite the fact that they spent so much energy pushing it away. |
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| Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I would't want to piss her off. | |
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